Head

Mediums: limestone.
Location: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (the USA).

It is known that Amedeo Modigliani wanted “novelty without Cubism”. Working on the sculpture, the master sought simplicity, the geometry of silence and tranquility in his later works. That is why his sculptures are elegant and balanced; they have a conscious and close connection with the past – ritual and architectural figures of antiquity, reliefs and statues of Egypt, masks of the Ivory Coast. This limestone head has a special feature – a general discontent is seen in the expression on the face, and the tiny lips reflect scepticism.